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Ah, yes. Overseas, that wretched hive of scum and villainy, home of all malicious hackers and utterly devoid of any ordinary households.
Let me guess, you've never tried to host anything public yourself. If you run fail2ban long enough you end up with a blocklist that heavily skews towards a particular set of countries. Residential proxies are regularly used in criminal activity. I've personally and professionally been impacted by TAs using residential proxies to get around firewall rules as part of compromises.
If authorities in those countries took action against TAs and scammers more aggressively, perhaps blocking their entire country wouldn't be seen as a valid defensive approach.
Btw I'm not sure if you're aware, but this behaviour (blocking based on geographic ip) is literally illegal in the EU. I'm aware it's not applicable to you since you're in the states, just an FYI.
Also I'm not selling anything so that EU law wouldn't apply to my services even if I did host them in the EU or provide services to the EU.
Oh yeah I'm not trying to accuse you of anything, don't worry. Just throwing out some info a lot of people aren't aware of to contribute to the conversation.